Quotes from James Franco

I don't even like to sleep - I feel as if there's too much to do.

I love collaboration of all kinds, and I love the way that collaboration pulls me into directions I wouldn't go in if I was working on my own.

He was so. So dirty, and just moving in front of me, and cute. I was in love with him, especially because he was talking to me.

I love that the idea of examining memory, and the way memory is edited was made more interesting because it was being filtered through a writer.

When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a series of short films. I started making films based on short poems.

When I sign on for a project, I'm there to give the director all the material he or she might need to tell their story, and that's the number one priority.

My name is James Edward Franco. Ted is a nickname for Edward. That's what my parents called me. I also got 'Teddy Ruxpin' a lot. It just got to a point where I got sick of it, so when a teacher called out 'James Franco' my junior year of high school, I didn't correct her.

I personally just love movies about the creative process.

We fell in love last night. He's the coolest guy.

I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish.

The first piece of art that I ever bought-when I could afford it-was a Warhol sketch from the period when he was just getting out of doing commercial work and more into art. It's a sketch of a young guy's face. I guess the gallery that I bought it from thought I would like it because the young guy kind of looked like James Dean.

When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buck teeth. I didn't want to get braces, but my mom said I couldn't be an actor if I didn't get the braces. So, I got the braces.

I get like six or so hours of sleep a night.

I don't like sleeping in a bed.

A lot of the people in San Francisco think of themselves as healers - not just as people delivering this base service, but giving their clients spiritual help. It's almost like being an actor, playing a different part for each trick.

Reviews about film acting are very... tricky, because movies are such a collaborative thing.

It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.

The general view is that actors start on soaps and then maybe graduate to prime-time television or film; normally you don't see a film actor going to do a soap.

My favorite role ever was Alien in 'Spring Breakers'.

You take advantage of your position as a famous actor to meet women.

The fame and the fame-hungry world we live in does it all for you. Women are lining up on your Instagram account to meet you.

The number of women in power positions is a fraction of the number of men in such positions.

Men in your position have women offering themselves in the hopes that they will get somewhere professionally, or socially.

When I started writing after my career as an actor, I knew that that other life in the film industry would be pulled into my writing life and that people would see me not as an author but as an actor starting to write.